“Hold on. I’m leaving too. I’ll walk out with you.” Cassidy smiled.“But, Cass—”I walked over to Richard and put my hand over his mouth. “She thinks he’s hot. Let her go.”“Seriously?” he mumbled.I removed my hand from his mouth and kissed him softly. “Leave your sister alone.”“I didn’t say anything,” he said.“Not yet you didn’t. But you have that look.”Richard looked at his watch. “Let’s get the hell out of here.” He smiled as he put his arm around me.Richard We both climbed into the Range Rover, and I sat there with my hands on the wheel. I looked over at Isabella as she looked at herself in a small mirror. When she stopped looking at herself, she turned her eyes to me.“What?” she asked.“I can’t believe what Cassidy did in there.”“Why? She saw a hot guy and she took advantage of the situation.”“Oh, so you think he’s hot?”“Yeah, he’s cute,” Isabella replied as she put on her lipstick.“I bet you thought he was hot back in college too,” I said as I pulled out of the parkin
“Where are you going?”“To check on Julia,” I said.“Why? She’s only whimpering. Maybe she’s having a nightmare about you chasing all her boyfriends away.”“Very funny, Isabella.”“It’s okay, Richard. She’ll be fine. If she starts to scream, then we’ll get her, but until then, she’s just probably trying to get comfortable.”I pulled on my boxers and lay back in bed. “You’re right, babe,” I said as I wrapped my arms around her and stared at my daughter through the monitor.Isabella One month later…Ashlyn’s trial had been going on for about three weeks, and Richard was under a lot of stress. Julia had started to sleep through the night, so that made things a little easier for us. Richard and I worked out at the gym every morning before he went to the office, and Mason watched Julia. He was so good with her, and it was easy to see how much he loved her. Landon confided in me that he was happy that we hired Mason as Julia’s nanny because all Mason had been talking about in California wa
Put your hands behind your head, Mr.Jones.”“You’re a bad girl, Isabella.”“I fully intend to be.” I smiled as I reached over.As I held onto his wrists, my br**sts brushed up against his face. He moaned as he took turns sucking each nipple. Reaching one hand behind me, I softly caressed his balls as his body tightened.“That’s it, baby, I can’t hold it anymore,” he whispered.Suddenly, I felt a warm sensation shoot into my body as I dug my nails into him and released myself all over him.“Damn it, Isabella , you’re making me want to come again.” He smiled.As I buried my face into his neck and tried to catch my breath, he whispered, “You’re f**king amazing.”I looked at him and kissed him on the lips as I put my hands on each side of his face. “Now, I can go about my day.” I smiled.He laughed and shook his head as I got off of him. I stood up and quickly pulled on my clothes. As I walked to the door, I put my hand on the handle, stopped, and turned around.“I’ll bill you for service
I can tell he still has feelings for you.”“Oh well. His loss, right?” She smiled.“That’s right, baby, his loss and my gain. If he never would’ve left you, I never would’ve met you, and who knows where I’d be right now?”She squeezed my hand lightly as we stood in front of Jack’s Tattoo Parlor.“Are you sure you want to do this?” she asked.“Of course I’m sure. I’ve never been surer about anything in my life, except for you.” I winked at her.As we walked through the door of the parlor, Jack looked up from behind the counter.“Well, look who decided to drop by; my girl, Isabella.” He smiled as he stepped out from behind the counter.“Hi, Jack,” Isabella said as she gave him a hug. “I want you to meet my husband, Richard . He wants to get a tattoo.”“Hey, Richard , nice to meet you, bro,” Jack said as we shook hands. “Take a seat right over here and tell me what you’re thinking.”“I was thinking about the double infinity symbol in thick black ink, with Isabella’s name at the top and Ju
Richard placed his hand on mine as I released my light grip. “Baby, that’s not nice, and we’ll discuss it when we get home.”“You bet we’ll discuss it when we get home; just not with words.”“Oh God,” he whispered.I paid for Camden’s birthday gifts and the four of us walked out of the store. As Richard pushed the stroller, I looped my arm around his and smiled.While we were waiting for our food to be served, I asked Richard how he knew we were at FAO Schwarz.“Babe, you told me last night you were going there, and when I talked to Denny, he said he’d just dropped you and Julia off.”“But we had already been in there for over two hours. How did you know we were still in there?”“I took my chances, Isabella . What’s with the million questions?”I shook my head and apologized. Something wasn’t sitting right with me, and I couldn’t put my finger on it.“Oh my God! I completely forgot to tell you, Richard !” I exclaimed.“What?”“The reason Julia and I were coming to see you at the offic
“We are. The day we talked about it was visiting day, so now we have to wait until next week.”“Oh okay. I was just wondering because you were really adamant about going and then you never mentioned it again. I thought that maybe you’d changed your mind. Actually, I was hoping you’d changed your mind.”“No, Anita , I haven’t changed my mind.”“Okie dokie, Isabella . What are you doing?”“Staring at my sexy husband as he’s standing in the doorway. I’ll call you later.”As I hit the end button, Richard walked over, took Julia, and sat in the rocking chair. My greatest love was watching my husband with his daughter. I took the new clothes I bought for Julia and hung them in the closet. My stomach tied itself in knots when Richard asked me a question.“What haven’t you changed your mind about?”I stood facing the inside of the closet as I hung up the clothes one by one. My skin started to feel fiery and nerves set in. I needed to think of something fast.“What?” I innocently asked.“I hea
How’s my baby?”“I’m fine, thank you. Oh wait, you mean the princess. She’s adorable and she’s sleeping.”“Great. We’ll be back to the hotel later. We’re going to take a tour of the art gallery.”“No hurry and have fun.”After we toured the art gallery, Richard and I said goodbye to Vinnie and slid into the back seat of the limo that was waiting for us. Richard reached over and took my hand.“Did you like the gallery?”“I loved it. It’s going to be amazing once it’s finished.”“It’ll be amazing when your paintings are hanging on the wall.” He smiled.After I kissed him on the cheek, I laid my head on his shoulder while I was worried about whether or not I’d be able to finish all five paintings in time. When I was single, the worry would never have crossed my mind. But now that I was a wife and a mother, it was going to be difficult, even with Richard’s and Mason’s help. I took in a deep breath as Richard kissed me on my head.Richard After we had a nice breakfast, we flew back to New
Because, it would’ve killed her and I didn’t want to see her hurt. My relationship with Ashlyn was out of control. I was in a dark and bad place at that time. Thank God Isabella came into my life when she did. Listen, Dad, Lou has this under control. I don’t want you to worry about it. Hopefully, it’ll all be over soon.”As he turned around, he looked at me and smiled. “You’re right, son, and I’m sorry for what I said.”I gave him a small smile as he walked from behind his desk and patted me on the back. I opened the door and Isabella was standing there.“There you are. I wondered where you had disappeared to,” she said.“Sorry, Isabella. I had to steal my boy and go over a few things with him. Now where’s that granddaughter of mine?” My father smiled at her.As we walked out to the backyard, we heard screaming. I looked over to my right and saw Camden on the ground, kicking and screaming at the top of his lungs. I started to go to him and Isabella grabbed my arm. “Richard , don’t.”J